Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deep Dish cult hit Boston last year too. Straight from the Italian metropolis of Chicago, Pizzeria Uno took fish city by strom with a massive media blitz. Now you have to line up on Boylston St. near Copley Square even to get inside, much less get a seat. And only to be greeted by a soggy mass of heated tomato puree...
...waited and speculated on the resolution of a plot twist. At last count, 300 million souls in 57 countries shared this benign obsession. When the Ewing family saga begins its new season, the number is sure to be swollen by millions more who will have succumbed to the summerlong blitz of news features, promotions and gossip. Competing networks are advised to broadcast test patterns...
...game. His opponent must beat him on every point; he simply does not beat himself. Even more important, from his early teens, he has harnessed a fierce competitive spirit, organizing his entire life around a single goal: winning tennis tournaments. The child of the big-bucks, media-blitz era of sport, he has parlayed his on-court success into a personal fortune; this year he will earn an astonishing $5 million in prize money and endorsement income...
...truth was that Bush's closing strategy depended on a last-minute TV blitz in Reagan's own California, and that in turn depended on Bush's being able to raise $500,000 this month, and that possibility was rapidly disappearing. Said Bush two days after the Michigan vote: "Money is so hard to get when you have mournful predictions from others that it is all over." By then he had already arrived in New Jersey for what was to be a three-day campaign swing, but he canceled that, canceled all plans for California, and flew...
Alfred Jones, in his mid-50s, translates business letters for a chocolate concern at Lake Geneva. He lives alone, the sum of past subtractions. He lost his parents and his left hand during the London blitz in 1940; his wife died giving birth to a daughter who did not survive. Just as arbitrarily as it deprived him, life suddenly holds out a reward. He meets Anna-Luise, a beautiful woman 30 years his junior, and falls in love. More amazing still, she loves him in return. The sole threat to their happiness is the possible opposition of her father, Doctor...